AKIRA Hardcover Collection 4
$48.99
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
3 February 2026
Summary
The epic, timeless hit that inspired the legendary anime film and made the word “manga” part of the global vocabulary returns in a new hardcover edition. The AKIRA Hardcover Collection features the original right-to-left manga reading format and Katsuhiro Otomo’s original, hand-drawn sound effects in a beautiful, large-sized collectible edition.
Suffering the fate that beset its namesake three decades earlier, twenty-first-century Neo-Tokyo lies in ruin. Set off by the bullet of a wou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781646511372 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1646511379 |
| Author: | Katsuhiro Otomo |
| Publisher: | Kodansha America, Inc |
| Imprint: | Kodansha Comics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 3 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 1.09kg |
| Dimensions: | 40mm x 186mm x 262mm |
| Series: | AKIRA (Hardcover Collection) |
| Audience Age: | 13-16 |
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Katsuhiro Otomo
Katsuhiro Otomo is perhaps the manga artist who has most defined the medium over the last 50 years. From his breakout early short stories “A Gun Report” and “Fire-Ball” to his timeless longer works Domu: A Child’s Dream, Memories, and, of course, AKIRA, Otomo’s career punctuated the end of the “gekiga” era of the 1960s and 1970s and charted a new course toward Japanese manga and anime’s now-central place on the global cultural stage.
No single work is more responsible for spreading anime fandom around the world than the film adaptation of AKIRA, which Otomo directed himself and which was the most expensive animated film ever made at the time. Today, Otomo is revered by generations of comics creators as a professional inspiration and by fans around the world for his work in manga, anime, live-action film, picture books, public art, and more.
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